Dock worker’s drugs import charge

AN INVESTIGATION into alleged corruption and attempted drug smuggling at Portsmouth International Port has led to a dock worker being arrested – after more than a tonne of cocaine was seized in the Netherlands.

Michael Jordan, a 44-year-old resident of London Road, was detained by the National Crime Agency at his home on Tuesday. The Portsmouth dock worker has now been charged with conspiring to import class A drugs.

His arrest follows an NCA investigation into alleged corrupt activity at the port which was triggered by a seizure of 1.5 tonnes of cocaine in the Netherlands last month, with officers suspecting it was to be sent to the UK.

Two other men from the area have also been charged with conspiring to import class A drugs. Michael Butcher, a 65-year-old from Victory Avenue, Waterlooville, and Clayton Harwood, 55, from St Davids Road, Southsea, were both arrested on April 30.